The Medical Director of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Prof. Adewale Musa-Olomu on Saturday decried inadequate medical personnel in the country’s health sector.
To end this deficiency, Olomu advocated for the funding of medical schools by making provision for more teaching facilities across the institutions in the country to train more medical students.
Olomu made this known while delivering his speech at the 2020 World Television Day, organised by the Consolidated Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Abeokuta, the state capital.
The Medical expert who spoke on the team; Building A Post- Covid-19 Nigeria, regretted that most Nigerian medical institutions could not admit more than 50 students due to insufficient teaching facilities to train students.
His words “If you bring 50 doctors to FMC for instance, it will be of not effect even with the ones we have already. Government should fund the educational sector. 26 percent of every country’s budget has been recommended by the United Nations (UN) for the educational sector.
“If government pumps that percentage into the sector, we will have enough class rooms, adequate facilities, employ enough lecturers of course, the narrative will change,” he added.
challenged religious leaders to contribute one percent of their tithing towards boosting the primary health system across the country.
The medical director who decried the decaying state of primary health facilities in different local governments of the state told Muslim and Christian faithful in the state to join the government in the move to boost the system by renovating primary health centers in their communities.
His appeal to the state government was to renovate all existing primary health facilities in the state which are in critical condition, instead of building new ones.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Chapel, Comrade Kazeem Olowe, noted that year 2020 was loaded with many events that affected human wellbeing and following up on all these and getting clearer and real pictures of the events was made possible through the Television.
As a group of practising broadcast journalists , the responsibility of celebrating the World Television day falls on us and we have decided to take up the responsibility by not only celebrating, but to take advantage of today to look at the Aftermarth of the Pandemic -Building a post COVID-19 Nigeria with a focus on the country’s health sector challenges and opportunities.
“I want to specially commend the state Government, private Organizations and some notable personalities in Ogun State for standing firm in support of the masses during the Covid 19 lockdown.
“They supported people with money and food stuffs and other services. We monitored you and we appreciate you, you are indeed our heroes and we shall honour you in our way today.
“Let me assure you that, we shall continue to be peoples advocate and promoter of truth, fairness, justice and equity.
“We shall continue to write credible reports, serve as watchdogs in the society and remain committed to the promotion of professional standard,” he said.
